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Mordaunt is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Charles Mordaunt (disambiguation), several earls and baronets
- David Mordaunt (born 1937), English former cricketer
- Elinor Mordaunt (1872–1942), English author, writer and traveler
- Gerald Mordaunt (1873–1959), English cricketer
- Harry Mordaunt (1663–1720), English lieutenant-general
- Harriet Mordaunt (1848–1906), wife of Sir Charles Mordaunt
- Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough (1621–1697), English soldier, peer and courtier
- Sir Henry Mordaunt, 12th Baronet (1867–1939), English cricketer
- John Mordaunt (disambiguation), numerous persons
- Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt (1538-1601), English peer and politician
- Osbert Mordaunt (1876–1949), English cricketer
- Penny Mordaunt (born 1973), Member of Parliament
- Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809), British officer and poet
Given name:
- Mordaunt Bisset (1825–c. 1884), British politician and Member of Parliament
- Mordaunt Cracherode (died 1773 or possibly 1768), British Army officer
- J. Mordaunt Crook, English architectural historian
- Mordaunt Doll (1888–1966), English cricketer
- Mordaunt Hall (1878–1973), film critic of The New York Times
- Sir Mordaunt Martin, 4th Baronet (c. 1740-1815)
- Mordaunt Shairp (1887–1939), English dramatist and screenwriter
Fictional characters:
- Mordaunt, a main villain of the 1845 novel Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
Mordaunt is a surname and a given name. It may also refer to:
- Viscount Mordaunt - see Earl of Peterborough for the two holders of the title
- Baron Mordaunt, a title in the Peerage of England
- Mordaunt baronets, a title in the Baronetage of England
- HMS Mordaunt (1681), a Royal Navy ship of the line
Usage examples of "mordaunt".
Lingeringly did Clarence gaze upon the rich velvet, the costly mirrors, the motley paintings of a hundred ancestors, and the antique cabinets, containing, among the most hoarded relics of the Mordaunt race, curiosities which the hereditary enthusiasm of a line of cavaliers had treasured as the most sacred of heirlooms, and which, even to the philosophical mind of Mordaunt, possessed a value he did not seek too minutely to analyze.
Naturally melancholy and thoughtful, feeding the sensibilities of his heart upon fiction, and though addicted to the cultivation of reason rather than fancy, having perhaps more of the deeper and acuter characteristics of the poet than those calm and half-callous properties of nature supposed to belong to the metaphysician and the calculating moralist, Mordaunt was above all men fondly addicted to solitude, and inclined to contemplations less useful than profound.
Mordaunt did not then understand prevented the final sale of an estate already little better than a pompons incumbrance.
When Mordaunt called the next morning, he found Clarence much better, and carelessly turning over various books, part of the contents of the luggage superscribed C.